Anna

See also anna, ánna, Ánná, ännä, and an-na

English

Etymology

The Latinate and New Testament form of Ann, from Ἄννα (Anna), equal to the Hebrew female name חנה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious".

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænə

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name.
   • ~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:

     Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. / Anna's the name of names for me.

   • 1986 Sue Miller, The Good Mother, G.K.Hall 1987, ISBN 081614169X, page 183:

     His real name was Leonard, Len. He'd changed it when he came East. "Len," he said. "A turd of a name. Who wants it? I mean a name that ends in a nasalization, for Christ's sake. Leo now. It's like Anna. They go on forever. You can live with a name like that."

2. The name of a prophetess who saw the infant Jesus.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Luke 2:36:

     And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

Usage notes

• The name or its cognates are well used in all European languages because of the medieval cult of St. Anna or Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary.
• Anna is periodically popular in the English-speaking world as a Latinate variant of Ann/Anne.

Translations

given name — see Ann

biblical prophetess

• Armenian: Աննա (hy) (Anna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安娜 (cmn) (Ānnà), 亞拿 (cmn), 亚拿 (cmn) (Yàná)

• Danish: Anna (da)
• Estonian: Hanna (et)
• Faroese: Anna (fo)
• Finnish: Hanna (fi)
• French: Anne (fr) f
• German: Hanna (de) f

• Hawaiian: ʻAna
• Italian: Anna (it)
• Japanese: アンナ (ja) (Anna)
• Northern Sami: Ánná
• Norwegian: Anna (no)
• Russian: Анна (ru) (Ánna) f
• Serbo-Croatian: Ана (sh) f, Ana (sh) f
• Swedish: Hanna (sv)

Anagrams

• naan, Nana, nana

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Standard) IPA: /ˈannə/, X-SAMPA: /"ann@/
• (Western) IPA: /ˈanna/, X-SAMPA: /"anna/

Proper noun

Anna f

1. A female given name, the Catalan equivalent of English Ann.

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Czech

Proper noun

Anna f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.

Related terms

• Anka, Anuška.

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Danish

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.
2. Anna Template:Biblical prophetess

Related terms

• Ane, Anette, Anita, Anja, Ann, Anne, Annelise, Annemarie, Annette, Anni, Annie, Anny.

References

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 114 513 females with the given name Anna have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

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Dutch

Proper noun

Anna ?

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.

Related terms

• An,Anita, Ank, Anke, Ankie, Anne, Annet, Annette, Annie, Annita, Anoejska, Ans, Antje.

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Estonian

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.

Related terms

• Anete, Ann, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Annika, Anu

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Finnish

Etymology

From Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Anna), equal to the Hebrew female name חנה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈɑnːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑnːɑ
• Hyphenation: An‧na

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.

Declension

Declension of Anna (type kala) singular plural nominative Anna Annat genitive Annan Annojen Annain1 partitive Annaa Annoja accusative Anna Annan Annat inessive Annassa Annoissa elative Annasta Annoista illative Annaan Annoihin adessive Annalla Annoilla ablative Annalta Annoilta allative Annalle Annoille essive Annana Annoina translative Annaksi Annoiksi instructive – Annoin abessive Annatta Annoitta comitative – Annoineen 1) Rare.

Usage notes

• Traditionally one of the most popular female names in Finland, for example, the most common first name of women throughout the 19th century.
• Common first part of conjoined names such as Anna-Liisa and Anna-Maija.

Related terms

• (given names) Anita, Anitta, Anja, Anna-Liisa, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Anniina, Annika, Annikki, Annukka, Anu.
• (surnames) Annala

Anagrams

• cancan

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French

Etymology

A Latinate variant of French Anne, from Ἄννα (Anna), equal to the Hebrew female name חנה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Anna.

Proper noun

Anna (f)

1. A female given name.

Anagrams

• nana

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German

Etymology

From Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Anna), equal to the Hebrew female name חנה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate to English Ann.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʔana/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• (pet forms ) Ännchen, Ännerl, Ännerle.
• (variants): Anette, Anika, Anita, Anja, Anke, Anne, Anneli, Annelie, Anneliese, Annemarie, Annette, Anni, Annika, Anny, Antje.

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Gothic

Romanization

Anna

1. See 𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɒnːɒ/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: An‧na

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name. Hungarian equivalent of English Ann, Anne, Anna.

Declension

declension of Anna singular plural nominative Anna Annák accusative Annát Annákat dative Annának Annáknak instrumental Annával Annákkal causal-final Annáért Annákért translative Annává Annákká terminative Annáig Annákig essive-formal Annaként Annákként essive-modal - - inessive Annában Annákban superessive Annán Annákon adessive Annánál Annáknál illative Annába Annákba sublative Annára Annákra allative Annához Annákhoz elative Annából Annákból delative Annáról Annákról ablative Annától Annáktól

possessives of Anna possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. Annám Annáim 2nd person sing. Annád Annáid 3rd person sing. Annája Annái 1st person plural Annánk Annáink 2nd person plural Annátok Annáitok 3rd person plural Annájuk Annáik

Derived terms

• Annamária

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Icelandic

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה (ħannah).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈanːa/
• Rhymes: -anːa

  Homophones: anna

Proper noun

Anna f (genitive singular Önnu)

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.

Declension

declension of Anna

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Anna	Annan	Önnur	Önnurnar
accusative	Önnu	Önnuna	Önnur	Önnurnar
dative	Önnu	Önnunni	Önnum	Önnunum
genitive	Önnu	Önnunnar	Anna	Annanna

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Italian

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.
2. Hannah (Biblical figure)
3. Anna (Biblical prophetess)

Related terms

• Annina, Nina.

Anagrams

• nana

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1454. From Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Anna), equal to the Hebrew female name חנה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

Proper noun

Anna f

1. A female given name.
2. A transliteration of the female given names Ann and Anne from various languages, and of the Russian Анна.

Related terms

• Ance, Anete, Anita, Annija, Enija

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• [2] Population Register of Latvia: Anna was the only given name of 25 747 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

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Norwegian

Etymology

First recorded in Norway in 1340. From Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Anna), equal to the Hebrew female name חנה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name.
2. Anna, the prophetess.

Usage notes

• One of the most popular given names in Norway since the Middle Ages. For example, the most common name of women born in Norway from the 1870s to the 1910s.

Related terms

• Ane, Anette, Anita, Anja, Ann, Anne, Annette, Anniken, Anny

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 17 721 females with the given name Anna living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1880s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

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Polish

Etymology

From Hebrew female name חַנָּה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈan̪ːa/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Anna f

1. A female given name.

Declension

    declension of Anna

	singular	plural
nominative	Anna	Anny
genitive	Anny	Ann
dative	Annie	Annom
accusative	Annę	Anny
instrumental	Anną	Annami
locative	Annie	Annach
vocative	Anno	Anny

Related terms

• Andzia, Aneczka, Ania, Anka, Anula, Anusia.

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Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name, cognate to English Ann.

Related terms

• Annag

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1291. From Vulgate Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Anna), equal to the Hebrew female name חנה (“Hannah”) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Ann.

Proper noun

Anna

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Traditionally one of the most popular Swedish names, for example the most common first name of women born in Sweden in the 1920s, the 1970s and the 1980s.

Related terms

• Anette, Anita, Anja, Ann, Anne, Anneli, Annelie, Annette, Annie, Annika, Anny.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 302 997 females with the given name Anna living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June, 2011.